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An in-app alert and its sound were lost now and then, and this is also the intermittent failure of the alert checks in the browser lane.

The open app remembers each pane's status and tells of a change when a pane-status event differs from what it remembers. It also rewrote that memory from every roster (machines) frame. The server reads the roster from herdr on its own, every 5 s and on structure changes, so a roster can show blocked or done a moment before the event that tells of it arrives. The event was then no change, and nothing was shown or played.

seedStatuses (src/lib/droplet.ts) now decides what a roster does to that memory:

• A change that is news (to blocked or done) is left to its event.
• Any other change is taken, as before, with the turn's clock kept as an event would keep it. This is how the page catches up after status events were lost, so a wait that follows is news again.
• A pane first seen is taken as it is, and a pane no PC lists any more is forgotten.

Validation

• Measured with a probe on /api/machines/events (own herdr test session, idle 32-core PC): in 3 of 300 working → blocked rounds the roster showed blocked first, by 1, 29 and 86 ms.
• Failed CI runs this explains: 37431192288 (alert-sound-regression.ts:116), 37451562394 on main (:146), 37588162364 (droplet-regression.ts:110). Each waited 30 s for a card or a chime that never came.
• src/lib/droplet.test.ts: five new cases (news left to its event; work shown first keeps the turn's length; catching up after lost events; a first sighting; a pane that is gone).
• scripts/alert-sound-regression.ts: a new step puts a roster frame in front of every status event. With src/App.tsx as on main it times out; with the fix it passes.
• Adversarial review with Codex (gpt-6.1-sol, xhigh): one Medium finding (a fill-only roster no longer repaired the memory after lost events), verified and fixed in the third commit.
• bun run typecheck, bun run test:unit, and the alert sound and droplet checks twice in a row on an owned test session.

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Alerts and their sound are no longer lost when a pane-list snapshot reports a waiting or finished status before the corresponding status update arrives.
  • Finished-turn durations are measured from the start of that turn, even when a pane-list snapshot reports a status before the matching update. This keeps the displayed duration tied to the finished turn rather than an earlier status change.

Walkthrough

The app now seeds tracked pane statuses and turn timing from machine snapshots. Tests and a regression scenario cover roster updates that arrive before status events. The changelog describes the missed-alert case and turn-duration behavior.

Changes

Pane Status Alerts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Seed pane status baselines src/lib/droplet.ts, src/App.tsx, src/lib/droplet.test.ts	seedStatuses reconciles known pane statuses with machine snapshots, tracks turn timing, and removes panes absent from the roster. The machine-event listener uses this function, and tests cover status seeding and turn tracking.
Test roster-first alert delivery scripts/alert-sound-regression.ts, CHANGELOG.md	The regression scenario delivers an updated roster before the original status event and checks for the expected chime notes. The changelog describes the missed-alert scenario and turn-duration behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a3e95

The alert fix looks sound, but the new regression check might pass even if the roster-first scenario never occurs, so it may not catch a future regression. This is a test-confidence gap, not a user-facing defect, and it is reasonable to merge with awareness or add an assertion that the roster frame changed the target pane.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 44c7c

The change remains within the existing authenticated notification path and adds no server privileges. Alert recovery improves for roster-first delivery, but behavior across interrupted or arbitrarily reordered delivery is only partly established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Changed behavior can affect remembered statuses and notification timing for every machine represented in the open browser's roster, not merely the selected pane. The added helper has no privileged sink: its effects are confined to browser maps and downstream notification eligibility, with no added server command, credential access or persistent-state write.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Machine metadata enters through the existing access-controlled SSE route. Authentication rejection occurs before machines dispatch, and the contract test explicitly expects an unauthenticated machines-events request to receive 401 when the token gate is configured. Roster reconciliation does not introduce an alternate ingress or bypass that control.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Recovery remains local to notification state rather than authorization or machine execution. A roster can restore a non-notifying baseline after missed events, but it deliberately cannot replace a missing notification-worthy event. The observed cleanup and ordering limitations do not establish a security-control failure.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the problem, behavior, and validation in detail. It does not include the screenshot or recording required for this UI change.	Add a screenshot or recording from the owned demo or test session, as required by the repository template.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the alert fix and its roster-before-status event scenario.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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scripts/alert-sound-regression.ts (1)

76-78: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Require the test to assert a matching roster injection.

The roster guard only requires a machines frame. If its machine or pane lookup misses thirdPane, ahead remains unchanged, and the code still delivers the ordinary status event. The chime assertion can pass without exercising the roster-first case. Record only injections that change the target pane, then assert that both working and blocked were injected before accepting the chimes.

Suggested fix

       const statuses: Record<string, string> = {};
+      const rosterFirstInjections: Record<string, string[]> = {};
@@
               // The server reads the roster from herdr on its own, and now and then one shows a
               // status before the event that tells of it arrives. `rosterFirst` makes it every time.
               if ((window as unknown as { rosterFirst?: boolean }).rosterFirst && roster) {
+                const priorPane = roster.machines
+                  .find((machine) => machine.id === payload.machine_id)
+                  ?.snapshot?.panes.find((pane) => pane.pane_id === message.pane_id);
                 const ahead: Roster = { ...roster, machines: roster.machines.map((machine) => machine.id !== payload.machine_id || !machine.snapshot ? machine : { ...machine, snapshot: { ...machine.snapshot, panes: machine.snapshot.panes.map((pane) => pane.pane_id === message.pane_id ? { ...pane, agent_status: message.agent_status } : pane) } }) };
                 handler?.call(this, new MessageEvent("message", { data: JSON.stringify(ahead) }));
+                if (handler && priorPane && priorPane.agent_status !== message.agent_status) {
+                  (rosterFirstInjections[message.pane_id] ??= []).push(message.agent_status);
+                }
@@
-      Object.assign(window, { EventSource: ObservedEvents, soundStatuses: statuses });
+      Object.assign(window, { EventSource: ObservedEvents, soundStatuses: statuses, rosterFirstInjections });
@@
-    await page.evaluate(() => { (window as unknown as { rosterFirst: boolean }).rosterFirst = true; });
+    await page.evaluate((pane) => {
+      (window as unknown as { rosterFirstInjections: Record<string, string[]> }).rosterFirstInjections[pane] = [];
+      (window as unknown as { rosterFirst: boolean }).rosterFirst = true;
+    }, thirdPane);
     await block(thirdPane);
+    await page.waitForFunction((pane) => {
+      const injected = (window as unknown as { rosterFirstInjections: Record<string, string[]> }).rosterFirstInjections[pane] ?? [];
+      return injected.includes("working") && injected.includes("blocked");
+    }, thirdPane);

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Review comment at @scripts/alert-sound-regression.ts around lines 76 - 78:
In the roster-first branch of ObservedEvents, record an injection only when the
target pane exists and its agent_status changes; expose those records and assert
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